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Bradley Corner, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Mount Carmel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29848. It stands on Persimmon Branch. The Survey maps it on the Verdery quadrangle.

Bradley Corner within McCormick County

On record in Bradley Corner

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Bradley Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 537 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 25 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism25
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsTOWER
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2011Debris and open burning6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCormick County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Bradley Corner: 7 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Copper, Pyrophyllite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Link Mine/SmithGold, CopperPast ProducerPlacer
Parsons Mountain Pyrophyllite ProspectPyrophyllite, AndalusiteUnknownMetamorphic
Parsons Mt. Area-Piedmont Mn BeltManganeseProspect
Calais and Douglas MineGoldPast Producer
Civil War MineGoldPast Producer1860
Link MineGoldPast Producer
Lyon ProspectGoldProspect
Lyons MineGoldUnknown1908
Neill MineGoldPast Producer1909, 1913
Neill MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in McCormick County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Belcher Crossroads4.0 miles13
Lethia4.4 miles17
Buffalo4.6 miles16
Calhoun Mill5.9 miles13
Willington6.4 miles17
Bordeaux7.0 miles17
Cedar Hill7.5 miles16
Mount Carmel7.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1252041. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.